business hotels

Long layovers, plane delays, last-minute cancellations of appointments: the journey of business travellers is punctuated by hazards that can be a source of stress and reduced productivity. In these conditions, more than one mobile professional has no doubt wished to enjoy the comfort of a hotel room instead of wandering from hotel lobby to airport lounge to consult...

It's been in the making ever since Marriott International acquired Starwood Hotels in 2016: the loyalty programmes of these two major groups have now become one. Bringing together the millions of members of Starwood Preferred Guest and Marriott Rewards was even one of the main reasons for this mega-acquisition, in order to effectively combat...

With its beautiful resorts established in the middle of a tea plantation in China, in the heart of a fort in India, at the top of the mountains of Oman, on the edge of the luxuriant beaches of the Maldives or Bali and more recently on the edge of the Pacific, at Big Sur in California, Alila has become the specialist in intimate and...

Louvre Hotels is tripling its stake in Africa. The hotel group has announced the creation of a complex in Casablanca. It will open in September and include 124 Première Classe rooms, 189 keys for the Campanile establishment and 98 rooms under the Kyriad banner. This 2,300 m² facility will bring together three of the Group's brands in a single location,...

Discover new destinations, meet new people and get away from the office. These are the priorities of French business travellers, as revealed by the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) study on French perceptions of business travel, published on 2 July. While the 500 travellers surveyed would like to travel more often (28 %), this would not be...

Lifestyle in the heart of the metropolis. The Hyatt Centric brand, launched in 2015 and now boasting around twenty establishments worldwide, is continuing its contemporary advance. First appearing last year in Madrid and Istanbul, and earlier in 2018 in Tokyo's Ginza district, the design brand has recently established itself in other major cities...

Is France a growth market for IHG? Yes, particularly for our luxury division. After Paris, Marseille and Bordeaux, we expect to open an InterContinental in Lyon in 2019, a magnificent project in the former Hôtel-Dieu. As for Kimpton, the luxury lifestyle and design brand that we acquired...

What is the profile of your business clientele? We cater for both sales staff and blue-collar workers who have travel packages at their disposal, and their bosses who appreciate the quality of our hotels, which are close to the higher categories, but at much lower prices. We have a very good market share in...

NH Hotel is about to change ownership. After acquiring 9.5 % of the Spanish hotel group's shares last May, Thailand's Minor International has just announced the purchase of the shares held by HNA, the parent company of Hainan Airlines, which also has stakes in Aigle Azur, Tap Portugal and Azul. This represents a total of 25.2%, which will...

The Food Hotel Tech exhibition, held from 4 to 5 June, brought together a large number of suppliers to the hotel and catering industry. Although the bulk of the event was devoted to professionals, the organisers did invite a number of start-ups, who brought their share of technologies and ideas to a sector in the throes of...

"Alexa, don't forget to wake me up tomorrow morning at 7:15." "Tell me, Google, what's the weather like today? And while you're at it, can you remind me what time my first meeting is this morning?" . "Siri, my dear Siri, am I still the most beautiful?"... It's probably not long before the...

Consultancy firm PwC recently published its forecasts for hotel activity in Europe. Against a backdrop of strong economic growth in 2018, the European hotel industry is expected to perform well this year. PwC estimates that GDP per capita growth will be 4% worldwide and 2.2%...

Civilised. That's probably the best adjective to describe these cosy hotels, some of which offer 'old-fashioned' hospitality with chandeliers and wood panelling, while others are arty and refreshing. In stark contrast to ordinary business establishments, however excellent, these hotels with their singular cachet quietly live their lives away from the big groups. "It's a...

The prospect of turning one of the world's biggest hubs into an airport hotel could not have left the Yotel brand, which specialises in Japanese-style capsule hotels, indifferent. And the idea of offering passengers a place to put down their bags for a night or a few hours could not leave the operator indifferent...

Pop, rock or flamenco: it's a very musical atmosphere that the Barcelo group is offering with the inauguration of its new five-star hotel in Madrid, the third in the Spanish capital. Located in the Chamartin district, very close to the train station and the Plaza de Castilla, the Barcelo Imagine - no doubt in a nod to the...

It had been announced ever since Le Figaro revealed on 25 April that AccorHotels intended to acquire Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts. Now it's official: AccorHotels is to buy the Swiss hotel operator. The French group has reached agreement with its owner, Saudi investor Kingdom Holding, on a price of 560 million Swiss francs, or 482 million euros. Completion of this transaction...

The Paris CDG hub continues to diversify its hotel offering. Recent developments include the addition of a new budget hotel with the inauguration this week of the Holiday Inn Express Paris - Aéroport Charles de Gaulle. With 305 rooms, this is the brand's largest hotel in France, and is "designed to...

Preferred Hotels is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. What explains this longevity? Lindsey Ueberroth - We focus on the independent luxury hotel scene, unlike the big chains. So we've become experts at identifying what a truly exceptional hotel is, with service that's often family-run and very...

Your group is growing from strength to strength. How far do you intend to go? Pierre-Frédéric Roulot - We are the world's fifth-largest hotel group, and our ambition is to be number three within two years. In 2017, we opened nearly 1,000 establishments around the world, two-thirds of them in China, where our group...

The 7th edition of the Global Meeting Exchange (GME) was held in Montreal at the beginning of March. More than 250 guests converged on the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth, whose $140 million (€113.5 million) renovation well deserved the spotlight. The...